35 episodes
Math Teacher Lounge Bethany Lockhart Johnson and Dan Meyer
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4.5 • 39 Ratings
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Math Teacher Lounge is a biweekly podcast created specifically for K–12 math educators. In each episode co-hosts Bethany Lockhart Johnson (@lockhartedu) and Dan Meyer (@ddmeyer)dive deep, with guests, into the math and educational topics you care about. Interact with us on Twitter (@mtlshow) or join our Facebook group (facebook.com/groups/mathteacherlounge) for more content.
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Beyond My Years podcast trailer
Listen to this trailer for our new podcast, Beyond My Years, launching August 14th. Every day headlines tout something “new” in education—the latest research, the hottest tech, the trendiest new hacks for organizing your classroom. However, beyond all the hype there’s one underestimated resource that’s truly deserving of our attention: educators who’ve been doing this for years. In this trailer, you’ll hear from host and educator Ana Torres as she explains her season-long journey of lear...
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Preview: Winning teacher moves
After watching so much great basketball analysis throughout March and April, Dan has been inspired to put the spotlight on a different kind of superstar: exceptional math educators. Check out a little preview of Dan's new project with Kelly Serpa Howe.Check out the full video
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Season finale: Key takeaways and looking ahead
Listen to the final episode of Math Teacher Lounge! We’ll walk through the past 10 episodes on math fluency and pull out the key takeaways from our amazing hosts–such as tips on defining and assessing fluency, fluency development in a bilingual setting, and the potential pitfalls of relying too heavily on so-called fake fluency. We’ll also talk about the future of the podcast and what’s next for us. Spanning six seasons, we’ve had the privilege of reaching thousands of educators while ex...
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S6-E10: Supercharge math fluency through problem-solving
Tune into this episode of Math Teacher Lounge, featuring math teaching and learning specialist and friend of the podcast, Fawn Nguyen. Listen as Nguyen dives into the unique and powerful relationship between math fluency and problem-solving, and learn about how problem-solving activities can be leveraged to engage all students and fuel math fluency development.Learn why math fluency and problem-solving have a symbiotic relationship and how to create problem-solving activities that generate in...
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S6-E09: Unlocking a systematic approach to math-fluency instruction
Join us for Episode 9, in which Bethany sits down with former classroom teacher Myuriel von Aspen to talk about the importance of a systematic approach to math-fluency instruction. Listen as von Aspen discusses how effective fluency instruction takes students beyond fact memorization into deeper learning through mathematical discourse.To hear more from Myuriel, check out the following resources:Watch Myuriel’s welcoming message at NCSM, 2022. Listen to an excerpt of Myuriel’s message at ...
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S6-E08: Cultivating schoolwide math fact fluency
Tune in to Episode 8, where we chat with guest and former grade 1 teacher, Jody Guarino, Ed.D., about how math teachers can collaborate to develop math fact fluency at the building level. Listen as Dr. Guarino talks about what it takes for schools to do this successfully, and her key takeaways from her own experience.For more from Dr. Guarino, check out the following resources:Follow Dr. Guarino on X: @jody_guarinoLearn more about Dr. Guarino and her work by checking out her University of Cal...
Customer Reviews
Too much misc talk
I needed this episode to give me solid advice, stategies to help with my math anxiety. Yet for basically the entire episode (almost an hour), there was only chatty talk. Extremely disappointing.
Too little info for time spent
The chatty chat is excessive; it took the first ten minutes to even arrive at one concrete idea about math anxiety. Also, the staggering level of deference to the interviewee was exemplary “sage on the stage.” She had all knowledge and the interviewers were the oh, so eager receptacles. Added to all this was the extreme display of traditional gender roles: he asked all the questions regarding specific information and she was the one to express the affective, emotional responses. Let me finally add that I do not recall a precise definition of math anxiety and perhaps only one or two ideas of what to do in the classroom, the only environment I as a teacher have any control over.
All in all, 30 minutes that could boil down to at most five minutes of helpful ideas and information.